I am very grateful. Unfortunately, owing to illness, I am unable to fulfill even in the most minimal measure the obligations of a member of the Socialist Academy. I do not wish to be a fictitious member. I therefore request that you either strike me from the lists or do not include me on the membership rolls.

27/II. Lenin

Written 27 February 1922

First published in 1942

in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript